Barry and Jarred's 2 week Blog

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you just need to be lucky with compression :)


anyways, so here is my last week in one long photo montage.

Heres london last week... last 1st world breakfast for a week
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Getting on the Plane to Sierra Leonne
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First Breakfast in Africa... I know it looks pretty normal.
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Next to the hotel.. was a school, you seen this one already.
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Ok that was alot of work.. time to eat again.
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Since we are here in Africa to shoot a doc.. we drove around
basically to scout locations for our interviews.
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This is how I was checking DVXuser.com out...
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Any woman here could carry me on her head if she wanted to.
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Stray dogs are everywhere... if you see one look at you like
this please dont stand there and decide to take a photo of
it.. its getting ready to jump and rip your head off.
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Coke was a big hit with me in Africa.. cause its bottled you know its pretty safe. Wont give you the pooos but will rott your teeth.
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Oh me working again.. sometimes you gotta sit in the sand
to think about the next shot.
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Don't know what their excuse is.
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2 British military guys we met..  the only military guy
I met actually that didnt talk about guns all day. nice lads.
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Ok.. getting close to work time..
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Oh.. this guys name is Jim Davidson? supposed to be famous in the UK.. dont know what the hell he was doing at our hotel in the middle of West Africa telling jokes but he was pretty funny.
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Ok.. DVX is out.. its hot.. focus... focus.. sweat.. focus..
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K.. works done.. time to go... wakeboarding?
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Looks like fun?... ha ha ha. Good thing I bought medical.
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This Dude was the coolest guy in Africa with his hard hat.
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Wait.. sratch that this is the coolest guy. hands down.
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Wandering around the jungle again..
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Ok.. Helicopter ride back to the airport.. back to London we go.
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Re: Barry and Jarred's 2 week Blog

Its funny.. it wasnt but that restaurant they all sit around and smoke some sort of Lebanese pot... no middle class in Freetown per say.. really poor africans and really rich Lebanese. Cool thing is the rich and poor get along alot better over there than we do in north america.
 
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[quote author=Jarred Land link=board=nws;num=1106263915;start=120#122 date=02/08/05 at 04:15:36]Its funny.. it wasnt but that restaurant they all sit around and smoke some sort of Lebanese pot... [/quote]

Like a hookah?
 
Thanks for sharing your experience Jarred! Did you enjoy wakeboarding even if it wasn't a wakeboard boat ;D
 
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Wakeboarding was cool.. but I definatly need to try it on a lake rather than the ocean.. the waves made things a little difficult.
 
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dude Jarred, I'm so envious of you. You get to travel and get paid big paper for this. Seriously, thanks for making me jelous. :P
 
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Dont be envious.. at this point I would pay anything to be in my own bed right now... its been a little crazy.

Anyways, Last night I go from London to Rome, Italy.. I take this airline called EasyJet.. It was the most insane airline I have ever flown. Basically what happens is they give you no seat assignment, wait till 15 minutes before they take off and tell you the secret gate at the airport... so everyone runs and tries to get the best seat.  at 6' 7" and carrying a good 40pounds of gear it was relatively easy to bowl people out of the way.. needless to say I got the best seat on the plane.
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Looking out my hotel window. Rome by far is the most beautiful
city I have ever been too.. the girls and guys are all very attractive
and style is everywhere... not a bad place to hang out for a few days.
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Every mile or so is some bizarre intersection that has impressive fountains and statues or such.. this is one of the more famous.
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Stumbled into some sort of shoot..
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No work to do in Rome... Rome is just a sort of "I made it out of Africa without being killed" treat.. Only here till Friday then I start heading back to Vancouver... oh I cant wait to be home.
 
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I thought the first Italy shot was one of the streets of  Stockholm  ;)

Awesome pics Jarred
 
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does Sweden look the same? I gotta make it to there someday... maybe next time, you can show me around :)
 
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Wow! Looks like you're having fun!

//EasyJet is great! :) It's like riding a truck on a bumpy road :)

//Rome indeed is great! But my favourite city in Italy is still Florence and litle town in Tuscany "San Giminiano".

//FYI: The most beutifull city in the world is still NYC <- oh, my God. I think I recorded there about 15h during my 2 weeks stay :)
 
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It will be really a pleasure...Jarred. But dont arrive here before May and after September...Stockholm is at its best in between. :)
 
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Cool.. I was in NYC last month with our very own Barry G... and yes its a cool city but I wouldn't say its the most beautiful... by a long shot.

Maybe I will see you in the summer Aejaz.
 
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no photos are with my little canon sd200... DVX was used for work only... well if you really can call it work.
 
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[quote author=Jarred Land link=board=nws;num=1106263915;start=120#132 date=02/09/05 at 12:31:15]

Maybe I will see you in the summer Aejaz.[/quote]


Looking forward to it. Just let me know in advance.
 
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Noticed you were using a monopod for an interview. Traveling light, no tripod? Don't see any mikes either. What did you bring in your duffle?

chris
 
Re: Barry and Jarred's 2 week Blog

Yes.. I wasn't about to lug a studio tripod through the jungle.. and it was interview stuff anyways so a monopod was fine. Used Senh. G2's for mics.. Had a very minimal Kit, no mattebox, no filters, nothing fancy. Just enough to get the job done.

And thats it for Photos... my little Canon Powershot died yesterday... the second one (sd200) that has broke in the last 2 months. Good thing, cause thats about 2 weeks anyways :)
 
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